Anthony Rodriguez

Anthony is the Administrator, Editor and Publisher of Lightning Rod Sports. He is the Sports Director at KMet Radio, and the Sports Producer at The Met Report. He's the Altitude Radio Network Board-Op.

[anthonyrod33]

Project #6: Open Work For my final open work project, I decided to take an approach that best suited my personality. This fine piece is named "Anthony in Disguise(s)" and I had a lot of fun with this one. As it may have become apparent through the semester, I am not an art major. But what I do consider myself to be is creative. And since I haven't used myself in my art, I thought I'd start right at the end of the semester. For this work, I took aspects from the collage project and performance art project. When I started this, Andy Warhol's "Monroe" prints came to mind, and I thought I'd take an "Anthony" stance to his work. So I did. This open work represents what I feel my personality displays. A whole bunch of awesomeness crammed into one photo, basically. And while my face remains in the center of the photo with my signature, my face is replaced with even more awesome versions surrounding it. I thoroughly enjoyed this class this semester, and felt as if my creativity got a boost because of this class. Cheers!

[anthonyrod33]

Project #5 Performance Art My personal favorite interpretation of performance art is a flash mob. Me and my friends flash mobbed a state fair with Party Rock Anthem a while back (I'm wearing the white shirt and tan pants w/ red stain) and this challenged the audience we had there to stop what they were doing to enjoy a good performance. Since performance art is defined as random or carefully orchestrated, I found our flash mob that we did to be the perfect medium. It was random for the audience that was there at the time, yet carefully orchestrated by us, the dancers, so we didn't look like fools. While this type of performance art doesn't necessarily tug at the heart-strings with a heartfelt message we were trying to deliver, I find it to be just as powerful because members of the audience could've, for example, been having a bad day. Our message to them was to be "Hey, cheer up, and enjoy this live performance of some non-professional dancers shaking their stuff for your entertainment." That in itself made it powerful for us.. putting smiles on their faces.

[anthonyrod33]

Film Response: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

The movie: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present was a fantastic movie to watch to get a good idea of performance art. Marina shows us how performance is all about state of mind as she says, and she makes the challenge for the audience with her work in this film. She is very bold with her art and does a good job answering the audience's potential question of how and why it's art what they are witnessing. She wants to become the art and answer those questions. Everything leads up to her big work of becoming the art as she sat in the museum and made direct eye contact with anyone that would sit there to look into her, and she brought them into the art with her personal contact through her eyes. What Marina wanted to do was fully accomplished by becoming the message she wanted to convey through her perfect perception of art. What we know to be performance art was beautifully put together by Abramovic.

[anthonyrod33]

Reading Response #5

I've always found performance art incredibly interesting. Whether it be just for the heck of it, or to make a point to an audience that is meant to pay attention, it is always something to stop and watch when happening in public. I also was unaware that performance art was as big of a piece of history. Not really sure how performance art could've been spread without the use of social media that we now see today. I would say performance art is always going to be a big way for culture to express themselves against the norms of typical people.

[anthonyrod33]

Exercise #5

To circulate (Drawn)

To influence

To converge

To epiphanize

To simplify

To rumorize

To establish

To deliberate (Drawn)

To extinguish

To exacerbate

To relinquish

To fortify (Drawn)

To tarnish

To exemplify

To dominate

To fluctuate

To magnify

To multiply

To communicate

To emphasize

[derekw250k]

Art 4D project

[inalienablekat]

WoW! this is insane! I LOVE it! Perfect music!

[anthonyrod33]

Love the Slo Mo guys, so I really enjoyed how you combined the sweet beat with a few different vids from them. Really got me hooked. Kind of mesmerizing. 

[dandy-brandy-deactivated2016101]

4D project

[tds3-0-3]

I really enjoyed the concepts that are displayed in your video, as well as the sounds you chose to incorporate. I would have liked to see more happening, as in timelength, because I’m interested in what else you could have displayed if we had, say, three minutes instead of one.

[anthonyrod33]

Really enjoyed how the music invoked a response with the colors used in this video. Good choice in videos used.

[anthonyrod33]

Project #4 Vanishing and Becoming. Normalcy comes in and out of this video, establishing what was needed for this project. Really happy how this turned out.

[anthonyrod33]

Exercise #4: Vanishing and Becoming Exercise. This is Weird Al's "Handy" to the tune of Mamma Mia.

Came out pretty good. Used Final Cut Pro instead of Premiere.

[goomboombas]

Project #3 The Loop

Posting this now, as I will not be near a computer around 4pm.

My end goal with this project was to have created a couple GIFs that showed the progression of doing a hand drawn animation.  So the first three GIFs are all frames that I drew with a Wacom Tablet directly into illustrator and then moved the images into Photoshop to create the GIFs.  I started with a video of falling leaves and used a variety of filters and adjustments to create the other seven GIFS, I decided to stick with the same video base for all the GIFs so that I could really dig deeper into the infinite possibilities available.  I wanted to spend more time manipulating the GIFs instead of searching for viable clips.  This project actually made me really excited about the possibilities here to make my own mini animations, although the frame by frame animation is a lot of work it is really rewarding to see, even for a few seconds, your work come to life in new ways.

[tayehensel]

Love the GIFs they are really great. I especially like the colors. I think its cool how you manipulated the same image to look so different. 

[anthonyrod33]

This is really inventive. Same idea, yet different take in every gif. Made me want to keep looking at what the next one was going to bring. Smooth stuff!

[plokadotfaces]

All together now!

[margaritaboettcher-deactivated2]

You captured perfect moments! 

[inalienablekat]

These are terrific! I love the selections and how much you were able to store in each one to keep it so smooth! 

[anthonyrod33]

These are solid. Lots of great moments to pull from in this music video, great selections!

[liveno7onevil]

Cat GIF’s for Project 3

>^.^<

[unpackinganoa]

Cat’s have so many diverse personalities! lo

[birii23]

AHHHHHH I LOVE THESE SO MUUUCH!!!!! 

[waveless-media]

And they dance dance dance dance dance dance dance.

[inalienablekat]

Super cute kitties! I love these. Cute choices!

[anthonyrod33]

Dance kitties, dance! This shall go viral, I say.

[anthonyrod33]

Spongebob GIFs for Project #3. Because why not? Spongebob is full of fantastic moments, and it felt like I was committing a travesty having to select only 10 beautiful moments.

[anthonyrod33]

[anthonyrod33]

Reading #3 Response: GIFs!

Tis the season for gif-ing! Gifs are pretty rad. I enjoy gif-ing and searching online for the newest batch of these bad boys. Gifs are a great medium to quickly show some content that can tell a whole new story from what the images were intended for. However, as alluded to in some pieces of some of the articles, are gifs, just like vine, tending to our short attention spans? I'm not entirely sure that this is just not an excuse for our generation being too simplistic, as I just don't buy into that. Gifs and Vine are just another medium to share media. The only issue I could see is that this new medium might cause copyright to be constantly in question with images and videos used for these mediums.

[dandy-brandy-deactivated2016101]

I like the first GIF because it’s drawn instead of a photo.

The second and third are both creepy, but I like Batman and the arms form a very interesting movement.

The fourth is beautiful because of the simplicity of the black and white.

The last GIF is cool because it is made to look like graffiti.

[anthonyrod33]

The hands one is creepy, yet very very mesmerizing.  The calm yo titties one needs to be in my back-pocket for my personal use for some people. Hah. The dog one is inventive!

[williamlmoore]

one of the best gifs ever?

[anthonyrod33]

Is that Hasselhoff? It just keeps going....